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1 online resource (viii, 187 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-187) and index. |
| Contents |
On the dao -- On learning -- A treatise on teachers -- Conventional convictions -- The difficulty of being understood -- The analogy of heaven -- Breadth and economy -- Virtue in an historian -- Virtue in a litterateur -- The principles of literature -- Distinguishing what only seems to be -- Letter on learning to Zhu Cangmei of the grand secretariat -- Letter on learning to my clansman Runan -- Reply to Shen Zaiting discussing learning -- Letter on learning to Chen Jianting -- Appendix : three works by Han Yu. |
| Summary |
Zhang Xuecheng (1738-1801) has primary been read as a philosopher of history. This volume presents him as an ethical philosopher with a distinctive understanding of the aims and methods of Confucian self-cultivation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Zhang, Xuecheng, 1738-1801 -- Correspondence.
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Zhang, Xuecheng, 1738-1801. |
| Genre/Form |
Correspondence.
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| Subject |
Zhang, Xuecheng, 1738-1801 -- Ethics.
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Ethics. |
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Zhang, Xuecheng, 1738-1801. |
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History -- Philosophy.
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History -- Philosophy. |
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China -- Historiography.
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China. |
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Historiography. |
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Electronic books.
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Records and correspondence.
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Personal correspondence.
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Personal correspondence.
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| Added Author |
Ivanhoe, Philip J., 1954-
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Han, Yu, 768-824.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zhang, Xuecheng, 1738-1801. On ethics and history. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010 9780804761284 (DLC) 2009021938 (OCoLC)367422692 |
| ISBN |
9780804772884 (electronic book) |
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0804772886 (electronic book) |
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9780804761284 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0804761280 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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